Re: Desktop and Pilot

[JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>]

On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 05:09, Callum McKenzie wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 08:43, Rob Adams wrote:
> > Evolution pilot support was horribly broken last time I looked at it (it
> > would duplicate every record every time you sync, so that you end up
> > with three copies of each record in both the pilot and evo), and
> > gnome-pilot is still really hard to get going for USB devices (which is
> > all of them, these days).  I had just assumed that gnome-pilot was dead.
> 
> It all works happily under Fedora (evolution 1.4.5 and gnome-pilot
> 2.0.10) with the exception of USB device discovery being a bastard (i.e.
> non-existent). According to the ChangeLog gnome-pilot is still getting
> some love, so it's not completely dead.

USB discovery is present but is bastardized mostly due to how the kernel
makes information available (you have to parse a /proc file or you have
to busy wait on a device waiting for ENOEXIST).

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>
Ximian, Inc.